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Announced on the Hugo Awards website (http://www.thehugoawards.org/2019/04/2019-hugo-award-1944-retro-hugo-award-finalists/) The finalists for the 2019 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and John W.…
The Gothic novel is one of the classic genre tropes of our genre – think Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, or more recently…
Hugo Award-winning author Kameron Hurley has been blazing a trail in recent years in writing gritty, fast-paced, visceral science fiction. The Light Brigade is…
I’ve mentioned before how much of a fan I am of Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988). This quiet and unassuming writer spent most of his…
So, this is one I’ve been meaning to get to for a while since it was published last July, around the time of the…
To celebrate International Women’s Day we’re sharing the cover of Distaff, an all-female Science Fiction Anthology featuring some SFFWorld regulars, Juliana Spink Mills, Susan…
Minimum Wage Magic is the first novel in Rachel Aaron’s new series, titled DFZ, a recognisable place for fans of her Heartstrikers books. As…
This Fantasy novel is the latest debut here in the UK that is being highly promoted. It has a lot that you may recognise,…
It is with great surprise that it is five years since my post of the 50 genre novels I have enjoyed most so far…
Magefall is the second novel in Stephen Aryan’s Age of Dread trilogy, preceded by Mageborn and to be followed later this year by Magebane.…
Black holes: awe-inspiring phenomena of deep space. Capable of devouring planets, stars, entire galaxies, they wield such power even light cannot break free of…
As part of our ongoing commitment to reading older Science Fiction at SFFWorld, my latest read is one of Isaac Asimov’s earliest novels. In…
Tom Edwards is a freelance illustrator and concept designer. He has created concept art for racing and mobile games, but his true passion is…
Here’s the latest in my re-read of Heinlein’s Future History series. This one is slightly different, in that it is more of a novel…
Nemesis, the second novel in Alex Lamb’s Roboteer trilogy, is a novel I’ve been meaning to get to since its release in 2017. I…
This is the third collection of Robert A. Heinlein’s so-called Future History. The first was The Man Who Sold the Moon (reviewed here), the…
So, here’s an unusual arrival for Doctor Who fans. Scratchman is a novel that, forty years ago, was the outline for a proposed movie…
The Green Hills of Earth is generally regarded as the second collection of Heinlein’s Future History stories, which showed us, in the Golden Age…
James Worrad is the author of the Feral Space series, which takes us on a chase across the galaxy to unravel the enigma of…
This time last year I was reviewing Alastair’s Elysium Fire, the sequel to The Prefect (aka Aurora Rising.) In 2019 I’m now looking at…
